October
1988 - April 1989Image Data Design, Somerset
Computer Illustration on Nimbus system running Designer software, various
clients,
predominantly in advertising and marketing.

employment
- design for print

April
1977 - August 1987Imperial College of Science & Technology London
Graphic Designer / Studio Manager
Supervision of typographic assistant. Responsible for budgeting, equipment,
supplies and staffing requirements. Involved in the organisation of, and
publicity for, the college Art Gallery situated within the South Kensington
site.

April 2018PLASTIC :: OCEAN ivon oates and David Rogers presented their audio work ‘PLASTIC :: OCEAN’ at the screening of ‘A Plastic Ocean’ by Craig Leeson, a Transition Town Bridport event during Bridport Green Fortnight.

November 2017sound :: lost and found [Being Human Festival] collaboration between Goldsmiths University and DIVAcontemporary STUDIO. David Rogers, Marcus Leadley, Adrian Newton and James Bulley led a series of sound walks around West Bay, Dorset. Giving an improvised sound concert, utilising the found sounds in the Salt House, West Bay. Being Human Festival, Sschool of Advanced Study, University of London in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. sound :: lost and found supported by West Dorset District Council. Download available from: https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/sound-lost-and-found-symphony
Link to documentation: https://vimeo.com/244049707

October 2017The Forest of Plasticity :: Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival [fringe] Curated by Adrian Newton, a place of transformation and mutability. Where sound is plastic and plastic is sound. Sound art and experimental music by local and international artists, exploring sonic responses to ocean plastic. Headphone concert and live performance.Link: http://www.electricbackroom.org.uk/Forest%20of%20Plasticity.html

June 2017Sounding... Site specific performances, interventions and installations designed to explore the sonics of place. Collaboration with Dr. Marcus Leadley, a series of environmentally responsive 'silent' event during Sound and Environment [Art Science Listening Collaboration] Conference at the University of Hull.

January 2017South Winterbourne Journey presented 16 short films and 4 audio works as part of a launch event for the South Dorset Landscape Partnership project (Land, Bone and Stone) at St. Martin's Village Hall, Dorset. Supported by HLF, Dorset AONB and WDDC.

August 2016SOUND MUSIC ROBOT :: a sound improvisation collaborative project with Alex McKechinie and Adrian Newton, part of the force8 programme, West Bay, Dorset.

July 2015Dungeness Shoreline a new composition included on sonic terrain’s compilation release for World Listening Day 2015. [STR 024] World Listening Day 2015 - H2O (Pt.II)

July 2015in the bakery video work, sound by Joe Stevens, still images by Eva Fahle-Clouts, featured in regularJOE open studio at DIVAcontemporary.

July 2015elements, Dungeness Tower and [dis]location video and sound work, included in sonic coast :: on film programme of screenings at DIVAcontemporary studio.

May 2015Kinokophonography:endangered trio sound work featured at the British Library.

April 2015Dungeness Tower sound work included in Cities and Memory 'Oblique Strategies' project.

January 2015sounds of the ridgeway :: interval podcast sound work featured in live broadcast from Beaminster School, Dorset. Part of sonic coast [5].
A DIVAcontemporary Studio project, supported by Sound and Music, ACE and WDDC.

November 2014fin :: interval podcast sound work featured in live broadcast from Weymouth College, Dorset. Part of sonic coast [4]. A DIVAcontemporary Studio project, supported by Sound and Music, ACE and WDDC.

October 2014soundings :: interval podcast sound work featured in live broadcast from The Drill Hall, Portland. Part of sonic coast [3]. A DIVAcontemporary Studio project, supported by Sound and Music, ACE and WDDC.

September 2014Kinokophonography:suoni dal futuro musicisti remix sound work featured in the New York Library of Performing Art.

August 2014open studio :: the vintage teaset mix presented 'fin' a 30minute sound work as part of the Bridport Open Studio weekend.
DIVAcontemporary Studio.

July 2014escalator included on Sonic Terrain ‘fragility’ WLD compilation album.

May 2014coast to coast :: chapel boundary DIVAcontemporary open studio at the Whitstable Biennale Satellite. Contact mic sound work included in and co-curated a 2 hour wireless headphone installation on the beach, with Marcus Leadley.
supported by DIVAcontemporary Studio.

May 2014shadow drawing 1 :: [with music by Marc Yeats] screened during 'Topography Disarranged Landscape, Dislocation & Place at The Queen of Hungary Project Space, Norfolk.

March 2014treppenhaus musik :: extended 20min version of live performance improvisation used by Sadaharu Horio and the KUKI collective, during 'circles and peas' at Espace Le Carre, Lille France [29/03/14].
supported by Visual Arts South West, DIVAcontemporary Studio.
artconnexion residency.

December 2013SOUNDING[S] :: hooke wood encounters released a four track album, on Bandcamp and internet radio podcast on DIVAcontemporary radio, in collaboration with artists Mandy Rathbone, ivon oates and Joe Stevens.
a metamedia project.

November 2013shadow drawing 1 :: PNEM Video work with music by Marc Yeats screened at PNEM Sound Art Festival in Uden Nederland 16th and 17th November 2013.

November 2013RIDGEWAYsounds [open studio8] exhibited 'populus alba': a three screen and projection installation, with a special installation mix of participants collected audio from two 'sound walks'.A DIVAcontemporary, South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership project. Supported by HLF and WDDC.

October 2013EVANESCENT CONTINENTS 1 Audio field recording included in work // Troll by Mikatsiu presented at X Marks the Bökship, London on 17th October 2013.

August 2013sonic coast :: metamedia [open studio7] exhibited Portland Stone: a four screen installation, butterfly and [dis]location two short films during DIVAcontemporary's open studio7. Plus a live performance of field recordings with the other members of metamedia.Supported by DIVAcontemporary.

August 2013sonic coast :: metamedia experiments in reinterpreting the landscape - working from and experimenting in the Drill Hall, sonically exploring Portland quarries, showcasing work in progress. Supported by DIVAcontemporary and Portland Sculpture Quarry Trust.

July 2013World Listening Day organised and led a participatory sound walk from Bridport to West Bay plus a sound editing workshop, accessing aporee maps network to distribute sounds. DIVAcontemporary Studio project.

June 2013framework:city wandering sound work featured on radio broadcast. resonanceFM (London), radio nouspace (Vancouver), soundart radio (Devon), radio zero (Lisbon), radio mars (Maribor), radio campus (Brussels) and wgxc (New York).

April 2013Kinokophonography:qua[D]rille remix sound work featured at MadLab Manchester.

April 2013SOUNDING[S] :: in the bakery: a unique portrait of an architectural space. Investigating the intersections and relationships between architecture, space, memory and sound. Seeing the ways in which architecture can shape, and be shaped by, sound; the resonant properties of the built environment; and aural culture as a possible invisible architecture.

March 2013MAKEaNOISE:manifesto 1913-2013 'live' audio presentation as part of 'metamedia'
celebration of 100 years of the Futurist 'art of noise' manifesto.

February - March
2013audiograft jukebox:chapel remix audio soundscape included on audiograft jukebox at
audiograft 2013 (Oxford).

January
2013Sound Devices n.1:TEMPEST audio installation included in the opening event at
Rathmines Library (Dublin). TEMPEST used for podcast intro on n.1 to 5.

November
2011countertext11: curated and exhibited installations and
interventions in
local venues to complement The Bridport Open Book Festival.
electricbackroom project.

October 2011Green: 20min video projection for premiere performance of
'Strange Geometry' by Marc Yeats, 3rd International Contemporary
Music Festival, The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus. Also at BKA, Berlin.

June
2010audiolab10.02 Coast to Coast: sound symposium - the language
of place
co-curated and led soundwalks, produced field recordings for web.
Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme.
PVA MediaLab project.

March
2010audiolab10.01: sound symposium - the language of place
co-curated and led soundwalks, produced field recordings for web.
Bridport and West Bay, Dorset
PVA MediaLab project.

November
2009countertext09: curated and exhibited installations and
interventions in
Bridport Arts Centre and local venues to complement The Bridport Literary
Festival.
electricbackroom project.

October
2009Siren: exhibited a multiple monitor and audio installation.
With James Price and Mark Yeats.
Pumping Station, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth
South West Artwork project.

August
2009Wireless: Performance developed with Nigel Slight using
an audio recording
of Caryl Churchill’s 7 Jewish Children a 10 minute play for Gaza.
Commissioned by alias arts
electricbackroom project.

November
2008countertext08: curated and exhibited installations and
interventions in local venues to complement The Bridport Literary Festival.
electricbackroom project.

September
2008Soldier's Verse1 [Weymouth and Portland]:
52min audio
read by Richard Mabb and Sweetpea Slight
installed in nothe fort [Weymouth]
part of the B-Side Festival of multimedia art

June/July
2008recipefordisaster:
intervention ["if
the bee disapeared..."] in collaboration with Nigel Slight,
7min DVD soundscape and cast sculpture, installed in Fruits of the Earth.
intervention [recipe
for disaster] in collaboration with Nigel Slight,
digital text and cast sculpture, installed in Naturalife.
intervention [readings]
in collaboration with Richard Mabb and Nigel Slight,
readings by Richard Mabb at The Chapel in the Garden.electricbackroom.org.uk

March-May
2008electricshorts: showing 'street beuys'
2min DVD, filmed in New York, shown as part of a new season of artists
film.
The Electric Palace Cinema Bridport.
electricbackroom project.

March
2008Creative Footsteps: exhibited 'sounds of the ridgeway'
28min audio soundscape, part of a group exhibition of work produced for
the Wessex Ridgeway. The Pound Arts Centre, Pound Pill, CorshamAn Artsreach
project

October
2007Creative Footsteps: exhibited 'sounds of the ridgeway'
28min audio soundscape, part of a group exhibition of work produced for
the Wessex Ridgeway.
Lyme Regis Town Mill Gallery, Ashmore, Ibberton Village Halls and Beaminster
Museum.
An Artsreach project

September
2005European Citizenship and Communication: exhibited ‘Maisema’
[Landscape]
18min DVD, filmed in and about Karkkila [Finland]. A group exhibition
in Meerssen [NL].

February
2002Wallpaper, Nets and Handbags: exhibition of 3 installations
on the theme of family.
A group exhibition, at the Literary and Scientific Institute Bridport.
A DNA / PVA project.

September
2001Ground Farce: exhibited site specific installation looking
at issues of popular culture.
A group exhibition, at Re.projects gallery Stroud Glos.
A PVA project.

November
2000SWIPE2 @ PVA: exhibition of digital video work, with
other members of PVA.
Second Media Festival showcasing new work by six artists working in digital
technologies
at the Old Library Bridport. A PVA project

October
2000Coastal Currents: exhibited video installation as part
of a Year of the Artist film festival,
at St Mary’s, Hastings

August
2000Quadrille: exhibition of video installation, on the theme
of travel, in the carriages of
the East Cliff Funicular Railway - Hastings. Organisation of workshops
in sound
and movement with groups of asylum seekers. A Year Of The Artist project.

July
1998VIAS: exhibition of digital video installation with sound.
A group exhibition at the Old Library Bridport. A PVA project.

December
1997Short Life 2: exhibition of digital video installation.
A group exibition at the Old Library Bridport and on the Internet. A PVA
project.

October
1997Still Working: exhibition of 3D multimedia installation
in an exhibition of Weymouth College staff work.
The Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre.

November
1992Window: group exhibition of computer generated images
in foyer
and front display window of St. Martins School of Art [London].

April
1990The Works: exhibition of computer generated images in
an exhibition of Weymouth College
staff work, at Weymouth College.

April
1989Of Mice and Menus: group exhibition of computer generated
images
in the Lethaby Gallery London. Featured in ‘Creative Review’
& ‘Hot Shoe’ magazines.

June
1976Degree Show: exhibition of 5 prototype designs, featured
in ‘Design’ magazine.
The Building Centre, London.

projects

Sept - Oct 2017Home Ed - Portland installation: working with a group of 'home educated' creatives, aged between 10 and 16 years, looking at the Isle of Portland, Dorset, its hidden history and landscape. A collaborative project between DIVAcontemporary STUDIO and b-side.

July 2017regularJOE :: early experimental animations organised and curated an open studio event. A DIVAcontemporary Studio and b-side outpost event.

May - June 2017Home Ed Documentary/Mockumentary workshop: working with a group of 'home educated' creatives, aged between 9 and 14 years, looking at alternative narratives and ways of presenting audio and video.

April 2017John Berger :: Ways of Remembering curated with Eva Fahle-Clouts an afternoon of artists responses to the life and works of John Berger. Link to documentation.

March - April 2017Home Ed installation workshop: working with a group of 'home educated' creatives, aged between 9 and 14 years, looking at alternative narratives and ways of presenting audio and video. Link to documentation.

February - March 2017Home Ed audio workshop: working with a group of 'home educated' creatives, aged between 9 and 14 years, developing technical skills and creative approaches to audio 'drama' making. Link to documentation.

November - December 2016Home Ed video workshop: working with a group of 'home educated' creatives, aged between 9 and 14 years, developing technical skills and creative approaches to film making. Link to documentation.

September 2016South Winterbourne Journey :: creative writing workshop video and audio documentation of participants work and location. Produced a series of video works, supported by HLF, Dorset AONB. DIVAcontemporary STUDIO. Link to vimeo channel.

August 2014sonic coast [2] organised technical setup, documentation and live broadcast for the second of five contemporary classical music concerts. Musicians: zero theorem Laura Wolk-Lewanowicz [voice], Chris Goodman [clarinets] and Patrick Tapio Johnson [violoncello]. In The Hub, Lyme Regis.
A DIVAcontemporary Studio project, supported by Sound and Music, ACE and WDDC.

July 2014sonic coast [1] organised technical setup, documentation and live broadcast for the first of five contemporary classical music concerts. Musicians: Stephen Upshaw [viola] and Calie Hough [percussion]. In The Big Shed at the AA school in Hooke Park, Beaminster.
A DIVAcontemporary Studio project, supported by Sound and Music, ACE and WDDC.

June - August 2014If Walls Could Talk worked with Amy Hopwood (project leader), assisting residents old and new to record the changing history of the Park Estate Weymouth creating a rich archive of material to be stored at Dorset History Centre.
A Digital Works project, HLF funded.

June 2014open studio :: sounds of the Neolithic organised and curated an open studio event with students from Sir John Colfox School, Bridport. Based around the South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership project - sounds of the Neolithic.
DIVAcontemporary Studio, South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership, HLF funded project.

March 2014Climate Day Listening Walk organised and led a participatory sound walk around Langdon Wood, Dorset followed by a sound editing workshop, accessing aporee maps network to distribute sounds.
DIVAcontemporary Studio project.

February 2014FREE TIME curated an exhibition for Digital Works at Dorset County Museum. Assisting old and young people to record the changing history of their communities to create a rich new archive of material to be stored at Dorset History Centre. A Digital Works project, HLF funded project.

October
2013 and January/February/April and June 2014seasonal sound walks and sounds of the Neolithic two creative public participatory projects, lead artist on sound walks and sound editing workshops, facilitating inclusion of sounds on aporee maps, as installation work and inclusion on the projects GPS apps.
A DIVAcontemporary, South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership, HLF funded project.

July 2013A Film in a Day working with James Price and young film makers at Westfield Academy.
A DIVAcontemporary project.

June
2013open studio6: 4 Shepherds by Duncan Whitley curated and installed a sound installation by Duncan Whitley and a video installation 'High Stoy' by Charlotte Loving.
A DIVAcontemporary event.

June
2013Antara Festival: DIVAcontemporary Radio live broadcast of 'Pathos' by Marc Yeats and piano works by Bruno Sanfilippo from the Lumen Centre London.
A metamedia, DIVAcontemporary and Antara Project event.

April
2013open studio5: MAKEaNOISE curated a sound event celebrating 100th anniversary of Futurist manifesto. Produced live broadcast 'the art of noises'.
A metamedia and DIVAcontemporary event.

March
2013open studio4:'Oder/Main/Tables' curated a 3D installation by Eva Fahle-Clouts and soundscape and projection by David Rogers. Produced live broadcast of TableTalk.
A DIVAcontemporary project.

February
2013DIVAcontemporary Radio: launched studio internet radio channel - 'World Radio Day' a UNESCO project highlighting the significance of radio broadcasting.
A DIVAcontemporary project.

July 2012A Film in a Day working with James Price and young film makers at Westfield Academy.
A DIVAcontemporary project.

June
+ July 2012sturzstrom: Member of the community choir for the world premiere at
Beer Quarry Caves, Lighthouse Poole and the Olympic Opening Ceremony Weymouth.
A Coastal Voices, Serious, Lighthouse Poole Project.
Supported by Jurassic Coast Arts and ACE.

April
2012sturzstrom: Organised recording of community choir, for playback with a live choir
at The Lighthouse Poole and in the ICCI Weymouth for the openning events of the
Olympics. A Coastal Voices, Serious, Lighthouse Poole Project.
Supported by Jurassic Coast Arts and ACE.

March
2012audiolab12: sound symposium - the language of place
technical support for 3 day event at The Kingcombe Centre.
PVA MediaLab project.

December
2011TRUCE: Film making with a group of young artists at Bridport Youth Centre.
A Film Nation: Shorts Film and PVA MediaLab.

April
2011SALT[2]: technical support for artists Lauren Healey, David Gunn and
Claudio Curciotti, one week residency. A PVA project.

April
2011SALT[1]: mentor and technical support for artists Sue Landsbury, Carol Mattingley,
Francesca Prior and Bronwen Gundry, one week residency. A PVA project.

October
2010Coast to Coast: produced an hour long radio programme for FuturePlaces, Porto, Portugal. RadioFutura 91.5MHz. Including compositions and field recordings by Marc Yeats, ivon oates and Pali Meursault.
A PVA project.

July
20103 months online: mentor and technical support for artist Sammy Izri.
A PVA project.

October
2009LabCulture @ Burton Cliff Hotel: facilitation of workshops
and access sessions
during a week long residency for 10 artists. A PVA project.

March
2008 – January 2009‘How did I come to be here’: curator and
mentor to Lorna Brunstein,
towards an exhibition in The Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre.
A Holocaust Memorial Day Exhibition

July/August
2008refurb:BAC: audio and stills for a consultative document
paperbased and DVD.
Working with groups of young people from local youth groups.
a Bridport Arts Centre project.

April/May
2008Capturing local character: audio for a consultative document
on DVD.
Working with Joe Stevens [stills photography] and groups of young people
from 5 different locations. a PVA + WDDC project.

June
2006‘in the heat of the moment’: digital video
documentation of performance and exhiibition.
Browns Farm [Dorset] and Bridport Arts Centre

March
– October 2006‘So how come I got it then?’: mentor to Lorna
Brunstein, towards an exhibition
at The Wallcott Gallery, Bath

March
2006Samuel St. Leger: curation of painting and sculpture
exhibition by the 04/05 holder of the St. James Homes Fellowship. The
Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre.
a re:flex arts exhibition.

December
2005 Christmas Fare: organisation and presentation of a seasonal
offering of song, dance,
poetry and prose at the Banqueting House Whitehall London,
a re:flex arts performance.

November
2005‘Poetry Reading’: digital video documentation
and technical setup of a “New York style poetry happening”.
A new work by Artist and Performance Poet Sarah Rapson and the
New York based poet Geoffrey Cruickshank Hagenbuckle, Bridport Arts Centre.

June
2005Sherborne Festival Polish Weekend: organisation of digital
media workshops for visiting students from France, Poland and Finland,
Lingua project in Sherborne [Dorset] - Language and Culture through Community
Networks, [Socrates].

December
2004Christmas Presence: organisation and presentation of
visions of Christmas past with seasonal offerings of song, dance, poetry,
prose at the Banqueting House Whitehall London,
a re:flex arts performance.

October
2002 - July 2004Artspace: curation of a physical and virtual exhibition
space
for Weymouth College Art Students.

January
2002 - December 2004Formed DNA: an artist lead group.

December
2001SWIPE3 @ PVA: organisation and mentoring, with other
members of PVA,
the third Media Festival showcasing new work by six artists working in
digital technologies
at the Literary and Scientific Institute Bridport. A PVA project.

October
2001LabCulture4 @ Artsway: facilitation of workshops and
access sessions
during a week long residency for 10 artists at Artsway. A PVA project.

September
2001Enhance @ PVA: mentoring of six Graphic Design, Video
Production and Music Students
on a sound project with six visually impaired clients. A PVA project

July
2001LabCulture3 @ Lighthouse [Brighton]: facilitation of
workshops and access sessionsduring a week long residency for 10 artists
at The Lighthouse Brighton.
A PVA project.

June
2001LabCulture2 @ PVA: facilitation of workshops and access
sessions during a week long residency for 10 artists at the Literary and
Scientific Institute Bridport.
A PVA project

November
2000SWIPE2 @ PVA: organisation, mentoring and exhibited digital
video work with other members of PVA.
A Second Media Festival showcasing new work by six artists working in
digital technologies at the Old Library Bridport. A PVA project.

October
1999SWIPE1 @ PVA NewNetworks’99: organisation, with
other members of PVA, a Pilot Media Festival showcasing a new work by
Joe Magee (The <99> Commission at PVA MediaLab) at the Old Library
Bridport. A PVA project.

September
1999USEIT: presentation, with other members of PVA, work
by LabCulture artist as part of
Re:Search Digital Autumn programme at Watershed, Bristol

July
1999LabCulture1 @ PVA NewNetworks’99: facilitation
of workshops and access sessions during a week long residency for 13 artists
at the Old Library Bridport. A PVA project.

April
1999 - January 2002PVA NewNetworks’99: facilitation of workshops,
open access and residencies
at the Old Library Bridport. A PVA project.

September
1998PVA NewNetworks MediaLab: established, with other members
of PVA, an open access facility for the creative use of new technology
at the Old Library Bridport. A PVA project.

March
1997 - July 1998‘Random Access’: established an experimental
audio/video/digital lab at Weymouth College, working on 3D installations
and projected multimedia pieces.

October
1996 - July 2001Artswall: an exhibition space for Weymouth College Art
Staff & Students,
exhibited an installation piece on the 1997 all woman Turner Prize shortlist.

May 1995
- July 1997Produced Artscrawl: a four page monthly magazine for
Weymouth College Art Students. Production of an interactive disk version
in Director software.

October
1994Founder member of Active Art Project: a project based
in Bridport Arts Centre,
giving artists at all levels, including local college and school groups,
access to regular life classes, culminating in a weeklong exhibition at
the arts centre. Plus other arts related documentation and collections
- ‘Fax of Life’, an exhibition of life drawings faxed to the
arts centre [from different locations in the UK and France] exhibited
in the foyer gallery, documented on interactive disk format. ‘Box
of Life’, a boxed collection of original art works by local artists.